Death is not the worst sorrow.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

Life is moral responsibility.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.